As with many lost works of antiquity, its content can be partially reconstructed by citations from later authors. This is what happened, for example, with the Phoenician story of Sanjuniatón. And also with the work of Megasthenes entitled Indica , where he recounts his journey to India in the 3rd ce
A few years ago I was invited to dinner by some Bengali friends and when we sat down what was my surprise to see that there was a knife but no fork, despite the fact that the menu was based on rice and chicken. They used their hands to eat it and, because of where you go do what you see, I had to im
The Timariot horsemen of the Ottoman Army were, quite literally, the horsemen of destruction that the sword threatened to put even central Europe under the crescent moon. The Timariote cavalry formed the basis of all Ottoman Armies until the middle of the 19th century. The timariots, i.e. timari
At the time of partition, Pakistan got 17.5 percent of Indias revenue sources while the army got 33 percent. Akhand Bharat got 33 percent of the Army, 40 percent of the Navy and 20 percent of the air service. For this reason, in the first budget of Pakistan in 1948, 75 percent of the share had to be